Dave Grohl Debuts a Bro Love Song He Wrote for Josh Homme at L.A. Benefit, With Beck, St. Vincent and Bill Burr Among Guest Stars
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There was a lot of intramural celebrity love to go around — both the self-consciously smarmy kind and the real, earnest thing — as Josh Homme produced an all-star benefit concert for his Sweet Stuff Foundation Wednesday at the Belasco in Los Angeles, with a cast of musical and comedic guests ranging from St.
Vincent and Beck to Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman. A perhaps surprising example of that less hammy, agape love came when Dave Grohl announced he was debuting an all-new, original song he had written in Homme’s honor for the charity event.
Homme and Grohl had engaged in enough preliminary joshing — so to speak — that the sold-out audience was primed to laugh at what would presumably be a sarcastic number.
It was anything but tongue-in-cheek, though, as Grohl busted out what turned out to be an anthem of unabashed brotherly love, making the hardboiled Queens of the Stone Age frontman cry.
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